The Night of the Barbarians: Memoirs of the Communist Persecution of the Slovak Cardinal
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ISBN: 0865165378 / Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, January 2003
Korec recounts how he was secretly ordained as a priest in 1950, consecrated a bishop the next year...
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Korec recounts how he was secretly ordained as a priest in 1950, consecrated a bishop the next year at age 27, and sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1960. He was named a cardinal in 1991. There is no mention of the publication of the original Od barbarskej noci , which was translated by Peter-Paul Siska and others. The forewords are by Pope John Paul II, Vaclav Havel and Theodore Cardinal McCarrick. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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